entity · ENT-HEKLA-3
Hekla 3 eruption
A major Icelandic eruption that has sometimes been linked to Bronze Age climatic deterioration.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
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Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1087 BCE–1006 BCE
Precision: calibrated range
- informs · provides tephra date
Two Tephra Layers Bracketing Late Holocene Paleoecological Changes in Northern Germany — Christel van den Bogaard, Walter Dörfler, Rainer Glos, Marie-Josée Nadeau, Pieter M. Grootes, Helmut Erlenkeuser (2002)
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Currently rejected causal hypothesis
A proposed causal explanation that presently conflicts with the best available chronology, mechanism, or evidence.
Why does this record have this property?
Hekla 3 cannot presently explain the c. 1198-1196 BCE drought or initiate the Hittite, Ugaritic, and early Mycenaean crises because its calibrated date is 1087-1006 BCE.
- Two Tephra Layers Bracketing Late Holocene Paleoecological Changes in Northern Germany
provides eruption date - Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 BC
provides target drought date
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides tephra date
Two Tephra Layers Bracketing Late Holocene Paleoecological Changes in Northern Germany — Christel van den Bogaard, Walter Dörfler, Rainer Glos, Marie-Josée Nadeau, Pieter M. Grootes, Helmut Erlenkeuser (2002)